The Q2 Service Update plans have been revised. As per the road map made available earlier this year, Q2 Service update was all about “CRM Anywhere“. It planned to include Cross Browser availability and Mobility that would let Dynamics CRM be accessible “anywhere” be it any browser or any device. However in the recent Press… Read More: R8 aka Q2 2012 Service Update Plans revised »
One can debug CRM plug ins without connecting to CRM server or without remote debugging. Here are the steps as in how you can use Profiler for debugging plug ins: 1> Connect to CRM using plugin registration tool of March SDK 2012. 2> Click on Install Profiler 3> You will find a… Read More: How to Debug Plugins using Profiler »
OK I am having a real hard time getting reports to work after installing CRM in recent times. This is an attempt to compile all SQL reports related errors and solutions that have worked for community in general. I have not checked each of the solutions but since I am experiencing issues with reports pretty… Read More: Solutions to issues with Reports in Dynamics CRM 2011 »
After installing UR7, there are chances you may not find any changes with respect to the much talked about Read Optimized form. That is because the default setting for RO is switched off and by default all forms are expected to open in Edit mode. You need to make the change at Organization level using… Read More: Read Optimized Form made available through UR7 »
While setting up IFD, we had issues in enabling the claims for CRM 2011. After trying to enable claims for CRM 2011 through Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Deployment Manager when we trid to browse the URL: https://XYZ.com/FederationMetadata/2007-06/FederationMetadata.xml we were getting one of the following errors: – HTTP 503 Service Unavailable error. – HTTP 404 Not… Read More: IFD Configuration »
We had a requirement to do some calculation and update self record of custom entity. We have created a plug-in and registered it on post operation of update event. The code was reading the post image, updating some fields and updating the same. The plug-in was working fine for single record. But when two records… Read More: Issue with plug-in in CRM 2011 »
CRM 2011 introduced the feature to design more than one form for an entity and assign form to users based on their role (Role Based Form). It has also included a feature where by it would automatically open the form that was last used by the logged in user for that entity. If you would… Read More: Dynamically control Form Navigation »
Generally if you hide a field through script, CRM does not redesign the layout to use up the blank space left from the hiding of a field on the form. This makes it very obvious that there must have been some control that is now not visible to the user. To avoid this you can… Read More: Tip – Hide fields on CRM form without messing up… »
Synchronous methods to create, update and delete the records for the Account entity through JSON. These methods works synchronously. Create Records: To create the record into the CRM, you need to create an object for that record. After that you need to create the object of the XMLHttpRequest and open this request through “POST” method… Read More: Performing CRUD Operations synchronously in CRM 2011 through JSON »
Common knowledge is that we can make JSON requests through scripts in CRM 2011 to retrieve data from CRM entities. However, the JSON request works asynchronously i.e it does not return the results immediately and the control moves to the next line of code to be executed. It so happened during one of our development… Read More: Read records synchronously using JSON in CRM 2011 »